Time Flies!

So I was thinking about how quickly all this house 'stuff' has happened and thought I should document the time line. Next to Mark moving twice in one day, this may be some kind of record! And I do realize that if I'd just blogged every day, I wouldn't have to do it all in one post like this...after all, a blog is a kind of time line in itself. Doh.


Tuesday, 2/20: Kathie sticks her nose in the internet again and finds a house that would be perfect. We've been down this road before and the houses usually are far from perfect once you seen them. She contacts the realtor so we can see it and confirm that.

Wed, 2/21: We see the house. Major flaw with it. There's nothing we don't like about it. Soul and budget searching process begins.

Thur, 2/22: Scott spends another 6 hours working on his spreadsheet that analyzes our budget and the affect of rising Venus in the house of Mars and a harvest moon. Determine that we could probably make it happen. No, wait, we can't make it happen. No, we can make it happen. (Repeat last 3 steps a bunch of times). Kathie realizes we don't know where to put the cat boxes in new house. My solution... get rid of the cats.

Fri, 2/23: Parents are in town. We arrange to see the house next door that is comparable with a bigger lot, but more expensive. House sucks..er.. is nice but has some problems. Naturally stop by other house for another chance for some glaring problem to come up. Instead we find a solution to the cat box problem and now the house is even more attractive.
Realtor visits our house to give us a number she thinks we can get. It's not bad.

Sat, 2/24: Parents leave after bestowing an appropriate amount of good advice on us. We ignore the advice and make an offer on the house anyway. No... that's not right... their advice was in no way that we shouldn't go for it. It was just sound, good advice that, if anything, leaned towards us going for it. We write the offer in the house. Scott manages to sign the offer sheets without having a heart attack!

Sun, 2/25: Realtor informs us the seller is drinking champagne in celebration of our offer and has basically accepted. Offer has to go through her relocation company though. Operation House Declutter begins at our house.

Mon, 2/26: Mad cleaning continues. Relo company has paperwork, but is too busy drinking coffee or something to get it wrapped up. Should be done by Tuesday.

Tues, 2/27: Scott takes off work and helps magically make all the clutter in our house disappear. Relo company has read our offer and is 'working on it.' Should know tomorrow... which of course is the last day they can accept.

Wed, 2/28: Our offer is accepted!!!! What have we done????? We have first showing of our house. It's not listed yet, but our realtor knew someone who wanted to see it.

Thur, 2/29...er... 3/1: Realtor takes pictures of our house. Forgets to take room dimensions as they were supposed to be on our old MLS listing. House goes up on MLS listings at 11 PM

Fri, 3/2: Have first 'real' showing. Realtor fixes some pictures and takes room dimensions.

Sat, 3/3: Have 3 more showings. Find out Friday showing wants to make an offer.

Sun, 3/4: Have another 3 showings. 2 more offers are coming in.

Mon, 3/5: Home inspection for the new house goes well. There are some issues with the caulking on the exterior siding that will have to be fixed at the seller's expense, but everything else looks great. We have 3 offers on the table to choose from. Realtor has done an excellent job playing the offers against each other to try and get them to 'put their best foot forward' as she puts it. We accept a great offer from a newly married couple. I'm worried Kathie may stalk them because we met them Sunday and she liked them. We won't tell them, but she'd probably have given them the house...ok, maybe not. They are very excited about us accepting their offer.

Tues, 3/6: Lock in financing (5.875%) as our closing date is now probably Apr 27th.